The Encyclopedia of Founding

Twelve hundred entries from the golden age of cast metal — how bells are founded, why brass is not bronze, what a cupola melts and a core withstands — by Simpson Bolland, the trade's great teacher.

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Shingling

The process of detaching impurities, as cinder, etc., from the blooms of puddled iron by hammering or compressing the ball, and thus preparing it for immediate conversion into bar iron by rolling. See MALLEABLE IRON; ROTARY SQUEEZER.

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